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The Unrelenting Push For The 2010 Blockbuster Is Aready Beginning
8:57AM Brian Moylan | We may not have anything left of our environment or economy by 2010, but at least we’ll have something to keep us interested in the cinema. And the marketing machine is already starting. Check out the coming attractions! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
1:43AM Richard | Movie deals for funny men, a TV deal for a funny woman, AMC branches out, SAG and AFTRA become friends again, and The Simpsons make the mail. More »
Birds Suck
7:45AM Seth | Say what you want about US Airways—their pilots are emergency-water-landing champs. Experience the terror via the eyewitness account of one scared-shitless passenger. More »
Steve Carell’s Touching Story of Fatherhood Reduced to Cheap Penis Joke
6:20AM STV | Steve Carell brought along his family photo album during a visit to Ellen earlier today, treating the studio audience to robust hints of the domestic heaven that is the Carell household. Among the fun: Bathtime with young son John, with whom the comic enjoys a bit of bonding over toy sharks. At least we thought they were toys until Ellen and her filthy-minded crowd went and sullied our soft-focus image, like a Hallmark card torched by a cadre of arsonists. Next thing you know, they’ll be snickering at Carell’s Beaver. Forshame! [Ellen] More »
Steve Carell Takes An Unusually Public Interest in ‘Beaver’
4:55AM STV | We’re hearing today about a script setting a new land-speed circulation record among directors’ agents, and why not: Who wouldn’t savour the chance to have something called The Beaver on their resume? It’s just a bonus that Steve Carell is attached, and that he spends all his time with his hand inside said beaver. What could go wrong? More »
Steve Carell To Put Napoleonic Twist On His Stock Moron Character
3:45AM Seth | Steve Carell is attached to play the “bravest,” “dumbest” soldier in Napoleon’s army in The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard. History buffs, we’re sorry to tell you this comedy is coming from the guys who wrote Blades of Glory. [Variety] Fox has signed a seven-figure deal with Will Arnett, which includes the development of a new sitcom. We’d gladly pop a fistfull of forget-me-nows if it means moving past our Arrested Development grieving and starting afresh with Gob: Master of Illusion. [Variety] Paramount is reducing its 2009 slate from 25 to 20 releases in an “effort to make the company leaner and more efficient.” They’ll achieve this through the relatively painless decision to stop planned back-to-back production on Love Gurus 2 through 6. [Variety] After the jump: What sacred fanboy graphic text is Tom Cruise circling hungrily? More »
Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: Comedy Edition!
3:40AM Kyle Buchanan | It’s just two days before television’s biggest event (that isn’t the American Idol finale, the Oscars, or a political convention speech), and we at Defamer are gearing up to fulfil all your Emmy needs — at least, the ones that don’t involve white linen slacks. Don’t forget, we’ll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT (West Coast spoilerphobes, beware: the Emmys air here tape-delayed). So who do we expect to be taking home the hardware? After the jump, get our official predictions in the Emmys’ comedy categories (for dramas, head right here):
8:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Fun and Games: And now, another installment of “You Win One, You Lose One” (NBC Thursday night edition)! Win: 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and The Office star Steve Carell are teaming up to play a married couple in the big-screen comedy Date Night! Lose: It’s being directed by the hacky Shawn Levy, who made Big Fat Liar and Cheaper by the Dozen. Win: Fey’s costar Alec Baldwin is in talks to romance Meryl Streep in an untitled comedy… Lose: …written and directed by Nancy Meyers, so it will no doubt be a cream-coloured, two-hour-plus slog that looks like it came straight out of a Lands’ End catalog. Thanks for playing! [Variety] More »
Diplomatic ‘LAT’ Alleges That Steve Carell Is Simply ‘Too Creepy’ To Win An Emmy
3:50AM Defamer Hollywood | Though Steve Carell is a perennial Emmy nominee for his work on The Office, he’s never taken home a trophy of his own (even as the show itself won the Outstanding Comedy Award in 2006). Now, the LAT’s easily excitable Tom O’Neill thinks he’s nailed the reason why: Carell is just too darn creepy in the role. More »
